Committee for the Education of Russian Youth in Exile Records, 1914-1939

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Series I: Materials of Prominent People

(see also T.Whittemore Papers)


Subseries I.1: Correspondence



Box 1 Folder 1 Astrov, Nikolai. To T.Whittemore and N.Somova. Constantinople, Geneva, 1920 1924, 1920, 1924, (1 autograph letter signed, 1 typed letter signed; group letters)


Box 1 Folder 2 Baruch, Bernard M. To Seth T. Gano. New York, 4, January 1921, (1 typed letter signed)


Box 1 Folder 3 Brailovskii, Leonid Mikhailovich. To T.Whittemore. Rome, 14, August 1926, (1 authograph letter signed)


Box 1 Folder 4 Bristol, Mark L. To T.Whittemore and S.Gano. Constantinople, undated,, 1920-1924, (10 original telegrams and copies of cablegrams with accompined letters, 1 typed letter signed, 1 typed Cristmas card, 5 carbon replyes; 2 autograph letters from Helen Bristol)


Box 1 Folder 5 Cantacuzene, Julia. To Mrs. Grace Murray Meeker. New York, 1920 January 26, (1 typed letter signed, with autograph notes)


Box 1 Folder 6 Cecil of Chelwood, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount. To T.Whittemore. Paris, 26, May 1919, (1 typed letter signed)


Box 1 Folder 7 Crane, Charles Richard. To T.Whittemore, Miss Loring. Various places, undated,, 1920-1930, (1 autograph letter signed, 1 typed letter signed, 1 typed letter, 2 telegrams; with Whittemore's replies)

(See also: Series II: Office Correspondence--Subseries II.1: Committee members correspondence (box 3, folder 7) and Series IX: T. Whittemore Papers--Subseries IX.8: Subject Files--Harvard Bells (box 100, folders 1-12)


Box 1 Folder 8 Dolgorukov, Petr. To T.Whittemore. Constantinople, 1921-1924, (1 typed letter signed, 5 autograph receipts)


Box 1 Folder 9 Du Pont, Pierre S. To Seth T.Gano. Wilmington, 1, February1926, (1 typed letter signed)


Box 1 Folder 10 Edge, Walter Evans. To T.Whittemore. 17, September 1929, (1 typed letter signed)


Box 1 Folder 11 Edison, Thomas Alva. To Seth T.Gano. Orange, NJ, undated, 19, June 1919, (1 typed letter signed, 1 typed note signed)


Box 1 Folder 12 Eliot, Charles Wililam. To S.Gano, Loring, T.Whittemore. Cambridge, MA; Northeast Harbor, Main,, 1920-1928, (3 typed letter signed, 1 carbon copy of typed letter; with replies and receipts)


Box 1 Folder 13 Francis, David Rowland. To Higginson. Vologda, 1918, (1 autograph mandate issued to T.Whittemore, 1 telegram with reply)


Box 1 Folder 14 Gabrilowitsch, Ossip (aka Gabrilovich, Osip). To Lee, Higginson & Company and T.Whittemore. Detroit, Philadelphia,, 1920-1932, (3 typed letters signed, with replies)


Box 1 Folder 15 Grabar, Andrei Nikolaevich (aka Grabar, AndreĢ). To T.Whittemore. Berlin, 11, July 1922, (1 autograph letter signed)


Box 1 Folder 16 Grosvenor, Gilbert Hovey. To T.Whittemore. Washington, 9, March1920, (1 typed letter signed)


Box 1 Folder 17 Hoogstraten, Willem van. To William C.Gassner. New York, 1928, (1 typed letter signed)


Box 1 Folder 18 Hoover, Herbert Clark. To Charles Eliot and Seth T.Gano., 1920-1923, (2 typed letters signed, 1 typed letter; with carbon reply)


Box 1 Folder 19 Iashvil', Natal'ia. To T.Whittemore. Constantinople, Prague, Sevastopol',, 1920-1924, (4 autograph letters signed, with typed and carbon replies; 10 receipts)


Box 1 Folder 20 Konovalov, Aleksandr Ivanovich. To T.Whittemore. New York, Paris,, 1925-1928, (4 typed letters signed, with carbon replies)


Box 1 Folder 21 Kusevitskii, Sergei (aka Koussevitzky, Serge). To T.Whittemore and S.Gano,, 1927-1928, (3 typed letters signed, with replies, related letters, and program)


Box 1 Folder 22 Lodge, Henry Cabot. To Seth T. Gano. Washington, D.C., 19, March1923, (1 typed letter signed, 2 carbon letters to him)


Box 1 Folder 23 L'vov, Georgii Evgen'evich. To T.Whittemore. Paris, 1923-1924, (3 autograph letters signed)


Box 1 Folder 24 Maude, Aylmer. To T. Whittenmore, 13, July 1926, (1 typed letter signed)


Box 1 Folder 25 Paley, Irina Pavlovna, Princess Theodor of Russia. To T. Whittenmore. Paris, 23, September 1926, (1 autograph letter signed)


Box 1 Folder 1 Panina, Sofiia. To T.Whittemore and N.Somova. Constantinople, Geneva, 1920 1924, 1920, 1924, (Group letters signed by her: 1 autograph letter signed, 1 typed letter signed. Stored in Astrov's folder)


Box 1 Folder 26 Peabody, Francis Greenwood. To Fosdick, Seth T.Gano, T.Whittemore. Cambridge, MA,, 1925-1931, (1 typed letter signed, 1 typed letter, 1 autograph letter signed, with carbon and typed replies)


Box 1 Folder 27 Phillips, William. To Lee, Higginson & Co, T.Whittemore. Washington, undated,, 1917, (2 telegrams)


Box 1 Folder 28 Pratt, Frederic B. To Seth T.Gano. New York, 1922-1930, (8 typed letters signed, 4 typed letters signed by secretary; also included T.Whittemore letters to him)


Box 1 Folder 29-30 Rachmaninoff, Sergei. To Seth T.Gano, T.Whittemore. Locust Point, NJ; New York,, 1921-1932, (7 typed letters signed, 1 typed letter signed by secretary, 2 typed copies of letters; with carbon replies and related letters)


Box 1 Folder 31 Vernadsky, George. To Seth T.Gano. New Haven, CT, 1932-1933, (3 typed letters signed, with carbon replies)


Box 1 Folder 32 Vrangel', Petr Nikolaevich. To T.Whittemore. Sremsky-Karlovtzy, Yugoslavia, 27, November 1923, (1 typed letter signed)


Walcott, Frederic Collin:


Box 1 Folder 33 To C.W.French. New York, 1922, (3 typed letters signed, with 2 carbon replies)


Box 1 Folder 34-42 To Seth T.Gano. New York, 1921-1932, (12 typed letters signed, 1 carbon of typed letter, 4 typed letters signed by secretary; with carbon of replies)


Box 1 Folder 43 To Wheelwright. New York, 9, January 1922, (1 typed letter signed)


Box 1 Folder 44 To Thomas Whittemore. New York, 1921-1930, (3 typed letters signed, 2 telegrams, with typed and carbon replies)


Box 1 Folder 45 To Arthur Woods, 1925


Subseries I.2: Manuscripts


Box 1 Folder 46 Chirikov, Evgenii. Open Letter. Prague, 8, December 1923, (1 page; holograph manuscript)


Subseries I.3: Autographs and Business Card


Box 1 Folder 47 Bulgakov, Sergei. Paris, 1927


Box 1 Folder 47 Certificates issued to students of the Pravoslavnyi Bogoslovskii Institut signed by S.Bulgakov, (3 certificates)


Box 1 Folder 47 Business card with holograph inscription to T.Whittemore


Grishchenko, Aleksei: see Series IX: T. Whittemore Papers--Subseries IX.8: Subject Files--Grishchenko, Aleksei (box 100, folder 13)


Subseries I.4: Photographs


Box 1 Folder 48 Boris III, Czar of Bulgaria. No place, undated, (1 black and whit print)

(Mrs. Kuzmin's school at the parade in King's Boris presence)


Queen of Belgium. Louvain, undated: Series X: Photographs--Subseries X.14: Photoalbums (box 107, folder 15)


Box 1 Folder 49 Vrangel', Petr Nikolaevich. No place, undated, (1 sepia print)

(Vrangel' with children)